Spanish Demonstrative Adjectives

Demonstrative Spanish Adjectives

Do you know what the function of a demonstrative adjective is? Demonstrative Spanish adjectives are meant to show, to point at something in particular. An equivalent of this in English would be to say this hamburger or that muffin. Spanish however, has three different types of demonstrative adjectives. All of these adjectives vary by their gender and perhaps their number. This gives us a total of twelve demonstrative adjectives when used in their different forms.

If there is two or even more things in a series, in a sentence, the demonstrative adjective has to be used with everything. For example, if you were to say in English, "Get those boys and girls over here right now.", it would be different in Spanish. In Spanish, you would say, "Get those boys and those girls over here right now." Do you see the difference? You must use the demonstrative with everything being talked about.

These words have a masculine ending which ends in the letter "e". As you will see below, there are three main root words to the demonstrative adjectives. They are, "este, ese, and aquel". Have a look at the chart below. The chart format will follow in this manner. For each type of demonstrative I just listed, you will see both the singular and plural formats. For example, "Feminine plural, Feminine singular, Masculine plural, Masculine singular". Take some time now and go over the list below. The meanings of the letters in the paranthesis are as follows, "fp = feminine plural, fs = feminine singular, mp = masculine plural, ms = masculine singular".

• Ese: Esas (fp), Esa (fs), Esos (mp), Ese (ms)


• Este: Estas (fp), Esta (fs), Estos (mp), Este (ms)


• Aquel: Aquellas (fp), Aquella (fs), Aquellos (mp), Aquel (ms) Indefinite Forms>>